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Aosta (Italian: [aˈɔsta] ( listen); French: Aoste [ɔst]; Arpitan: Aoûta; Latin: Augústa Prætṓrĭa Salassṓrum) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, 110 km (68 mi) north-northwest of Turin. It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great and Little St. Bernard routes. Aosta is not the capital of the province, because Aosta Valley is the only Italian region not divided into provinces. Provincial administrative functions are instead shared by the region and the communes.
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1. Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta e Planetario di Lignan
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4.5 based on 181 reviews
2. Museo Archeologico Regionale
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4.5 based on 180 reviews
APRIRA' AL PUBBLICO qualora LA REGIONE VALLE D'AOSTA SIA "ZONA GIALLA" con orario continuato 10-17 nei soli giorni feriali, secondo le disposizioni MIBACT - The Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) is housed in a prestigious historical building built on the foundations of the Roman tower that flanked the northern gate of the city. At first Vaudan Hall, then the seat of the Monastery of the Visitation, founded in 1633, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after the Napoleonic suppression of the convent, it became the seat of the barracks. The set-up of the Museum, documented by a rich collection of archaeological finds, furnishings and personal artifacts, the result of the excavations conducted for decades on behalf of the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, is divided into a chronological path from the ancient phase of the Mesolithic (7000 - 6000 BC) until the seventh century AD. It covers various topics related to religion, daily life and public life.
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This museum is an excellent antiquities museum worth a special visit. The focus of the museum is display and explication of the Roman ruins (forum,walls, entrance gates, some domicile artifacts). What is remarkable about this museum is the variety of displays (some diagrams, some film, some narrative, glass floors the visitor can walk on and stare down into excavation site). The curatorial notes offer more than the usual neutral scientific description of the artifacts. The personalities and careers of archeologists are descried, and most interesting are the quotations from various authors (Plato, Homer, Proust, Borges et cetera) musing on people’s relationship to time and civic environment. The museum offers a day pass which a visitor can use to enter all the sites including the underground grotto which has a film viewing space to watch a short film about the excavation processes over the past several centuries.
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4. Area Megalitica di Saint-Martin-de-Corleans
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4.5 based on 93 reviews
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5. Centro espositivo Saint-Benin
6. Institut Valdotain de l’Artisanat de Tradition
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
